Neema Roshania Patel

From Richmond to Philadelphia, a quicker, more comfortable ride to treatment

On a brisk morning, William Moore revs up his Beechcraft A36 Bonanza to fly cancer patient Michael Valdrighi home after a serie ...

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Sharing music helps imprisoned women experience freedom of expression [video]

Inside Cottage C at the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton, New Jersey, a group of inmates are singing The BeatlesR ...

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Hands-on Philly tour company opens a world of senses beyond sight

Philadelphia’s Italian Market is known for its cheeses, meats, chocolate, and fresh pastas. But what would a tour through the neigh ...

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Hands-on Philly tour company opens a world of senses beyond sight

Philadelphia’s Italian Market is known for its cheeses, meats, chocolate, and fresh pastas. But what would a tour through the neigh ...

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Germantown’s Colored Girls Museum celebrates everyday black women

On a seemingly ordinary residential street in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood, Vashti DuBois is busy putting the final touch ...

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Germantown’s Colored Girls Museum celebrates everyday black women

On a seemingly ordinary residential street in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood, Vashti DuBois is busy putting the final touch ...

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Cooking class looks to add a dash of the familiar to English lessons for new Americans

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, 20 recent immigrants and refugees to the United States strea ...

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Local artist and professor Jake Beckman with his degradable art structure at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Roxborough. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

Art designed to gradually decay into the landscape

Many artists spend a lifetime trying to build a legacy. But a recent installation by local artist and professor Jake Beckman was built fo ...

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Helping shift focus to writing in the key of yesteryear, Mt. Airy man lovingly tends typewriters

With the holiday season upon us, everyone is talking about the latest gadgets. But behind a bright storefront on the corner of Car ...

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Participants in the Philadelphia Muslim Youth Voices Project will have their film shorts shown at the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. (Courtesy of Kar Yin Tham)

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Filmmaker helps young Muslims begin cinematic journey

Growing up in the early 1990s with a budding interest in cinema wasn’t always easy for Musa Syeed. As a Muslim, he was expected to ...

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‘Big pile of poop’ a key ingredient of Philly farm students’ education

It’s just before 8 a.m. on a drizzly autumn morning at the W.B. Saul High School farm in Roxborough. Scott Blunk is already hard at ...

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Vernon Park on Tuesday night. (Bastiaan Slabbers/for NewsWorks)

Improved pathways, lighting and equipment features of renovated Vernon Park in Germantown

Huddled under newly installed lights at Germantown’s Vernon Park, neighbors celebrated the official reveal of $1.2 million worth of ...

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